# Between Shades Of Gray

**Author:** Ruta Sepetys
**Grade range:** Grades 4–9
**First published:** 2011
**Page count:** 286
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780141967677`
**ISBN-10:** `0141967676`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/between-shades-of-gray
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Between Shades of Gray is a haunting and powerful Second World War novel by Ruta Sepetys That morning, my brother's life was worth a pocket watch . . . One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars and sent away. They are being deported to Siberia. An unimaginable and harrowing journey has begun. Lina doesn't know if she'll ever see her father or her friends again. But she refuses to give up hope. Lina hopes for her family. For her country. For her future. For love - first love, with the boy she barely knows but knows she does not want to lose . . . Will hope keep Lina alive? Set in 1941, Between Shades of Gray is an extraordinary and haunting story based on first-hand family accounts and memories from sur

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### Golden Kite Award

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- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2012 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2012 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)
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- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2012 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: Golden Kite Award (SCBWI) winners, via Wikipedia — 2012 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Kite_Award)

### William C. Morris YA Debut Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: William C. Morris YA Debut Award winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2012 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Morris_Award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: William C. Morris YA Debut Award winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2012 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Morris_Award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: William C. Morris YA Debut Award winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2012 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Morris_Award)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: William C. Morris YA Debut Award winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2012 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Morris_Award)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: William C. Morris YA Debut Award winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2012 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Morris_Award)
- **recommended** · 9th grade — [source: William C. Morris YA Debut Award winners + finalists, via Wikipedia — 2012 Honor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Morris_Award)

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